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Two most important contributors to height differences - correct answer ✔✔ethnic
origin and nutrition
The process by which nerve cells are covered and insulated by a layer of fat cells,
increasing the speed at which information travels through the nervous system -
correct answer ✔✔myelination
At what age is fine-motor body coordination usually achieved? - correct answer
✔✔5 years
What vision problem do many preschool children have? - correct answer
✔✔farsightedness
Recommended amount of sleep for young children - correct answer ✔✔11 to 13
hours
3 common childhood sleep disorders - correct answer ✔✔insomnia, narcolepsy,
and nightmares
Most common malnutrition-related illness in US children - correct answer
✔✔iron-deficiency anemia
,Piaget's second stage; children begin to represent the world with words, images,
and drawings, with symbolic thought moving beyond simple connections of
sensory information to actions - correct answer ✔✔Preoperational stage
1st substage of preoperational stage; child can mentally represent an object that
isn't there; includes formation of stable concepts and mental reasoning; usually
ages 2-4 - correct answer ✔✔symbolic function substage
reversible mental actions which allow a child to do mentally what they formerly
did physically - correct answer ✔✔operations
inability to distinguish between one's own perspective and someone else's -
correct answer ✔✔egocentrism
the belief than inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action -
correct answer ✔✔animism
2nd substage of preoperational stage; child begins to use primitive reasoning and
wants to know answers to all sorts of questions; usually ages 4-7 - correct answer
✔✔intuitive thought substage
focusing attention on one thing at the exclusion of all others - correct answer
✔✔centration
awareness that altering a substance's appearance does not change its basic
properties - correct answer ✔✔conservation
, Vygotsky's term for tasks that are too difficult for children to master alone but can
be mastered with the assistance of a more-skilled individual - correct answer
✔✔zone of proximal development (ZPD)
5 teaching strategies based in Vygotsky's theory - correct answer ✔✔assess child's
ZPD; use the child's ZPD in teaching, use more-skilled peers as teachers; place
instruction in a meaningful context; transform the classroom with Vygotskian
ideas
approach that emphasizes the social contexts of learning and asserts that
knowledge is mutually built and constructed. Vygotsky's theory reflects this
approach - correct answer ✔✔social constructivist approach
action planning, allocating attention to goals, error detection and compensation,
monitoring progress on tasks, dealing with novel or difficult circumstances -
correct answer ✔✔executive attention
focused and extended engagement with an object, task, event, or other aspect of
the environment - correct answer ✔✔sustained attention
preschool children's tendency to only pay attention to what stands out, as
opposed to elementary children paying attention to what's relevant - correct
answer ✔✔salient versus relevant dimensions
preschool children's tendency towards haphazard comparisons shows a deficiency
in _______, as opposed to elementary children judging more systematically -
correct answer ✔✔planfulness